Add support for passing a list of nodes

index.js

@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@
 module.exports = toString
 
 // Get the text content of a node.
-// Prefer the node’s plain-text fields, otherwise serialize its children.
+// Prefer the node’s plain-text fields, otherwise serialize its children,
+// and if the given value is an array, serialize the nodes in it.
 function toString(node) {
   return (
     (node &&
       (node.value ||
         node.alt ||
         node.title ||
-        ('children' in node && all(node.children)))) ||
+        ('children' in node && all(node.children)) ||
+        ('length' in node && all(node)))) ||
     ''
   )
 }

readme.md

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Get the text content of a [node][].
 The algorithm checks `value` of `node`, then `alt`, and finally `title`.
 If no value is found, the algorithm checks the children of `node` and joins them
 (without spaces or newlines).
+If the given node is in fact a list of nodes, serializes them.
 
 > This is not a markdown to plain-text library.
 > Use [`strip-markdown`][strip-markdown] for that.

test.js

@@ -7,49 +7,44 @@ test('mdast-util-to-string', function(t) {
   t.equal(toString(), '', 'should not fail on a missing node')
   t.equal(toString(null), '', 'should not fail on `null` missing node')
 
-  t.equal(
-    toString({value: 'foo'}),
-    'foo',
-    'should not fail on unrecognised nodes'
-  )
+  t.equal(toString({value: 'foo'}), 'foo', 'should not fail on nodes w/o type')
 
   t.equal(
     toString({
       value: 'foo',
-      children: [{value: 'foo'}, {alt: 'bar'}, {title: 'baz'}]
+      alt: 'bar',
+      title: 'baz',
+      children: [{value: 'qux'}]
     }),
     'foo',
     'should prefer `value` over all others'
   )
 
   t.equal(
-    toString({value: 'foo', alt: 'bar', title: 'baz'}),
-    'foo',
-    'should prefer `value` over `alt` or `title`'
-  )
-
-  t.equal(
-    toString({alt: 'bar', title: 'baz'}),
+    toString({alt: 'bar', title: 'baz', children: [{value: 'qux'}]}),
     'bar',
-    'should prefer `alt` over `title`'
+    'should prefer `alt` over all others'
   )
 
   t.equal(
-    toString({
-      title: 'baz',
-      children: [{value: 'foo'}, {alt: 'bar'}, {title: 'baz'}]
-    }),
+    toString({title: 'baz', children: [{value: 'qux'}]}),
     'baz',
-    'should use `title` over `children`'
+    'should prefer `title` over all others'
   )
 
   t.equal(
     toString({children: [{value: 'foo'}, {alt: 'bar'}, {title: 'baz'}]}),
     'foobarbaz',
-    'should prefer `children`'
+    'should serialize children'
+  )
+
+  t.equal(
+    toString([{value: 'foo'}, {alt: 'bar'}, {title: 'baz'}]),
+    'foobarbaz',
+    'should serialize a list of nodes'
   )
 
-  t.equal(toString({}), '', 'should fall back on an empty string')
+  t.equal(toString({}), '', 'should produce an empty string otherwise')
 
   t.end()
 })